Hayao Miyazaki`s next film Announced
Hayao Miyazaki's next film was announced today. The title is "Gake no ue no Ponyo" (Ponyo On A Cliff) and is scheduled for release in the summer of 2008.
The plot revolves around the Princess goldfish Ponyo who wants to become human and 5 years old boy named Sosuke. Key words of the film are "father", "mother", and "a cliff".
While not announced as the location Tomo-no-Ura in Seto-naikai is the likely setting as Miyazaki spent some time there last spring.
The model for Sosuke is Goro Miyazaki (Hayao's son) when he was 5 years old.
This film is expressed in a watercolor and pastel-like freehand drawing. Studio Ghibli President Toshio Suzuki mentioned, "70 or 80% of the stage is the sea.
How will we express the sea and a wave in a freehand drawing, it's the director's challenge."
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao?) (Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a director of animated films and a co-founder of the animation studio and production company Studio Ghibli.
Miyazaki is the creator of many popular animated feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation communities until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia.
Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the same title for a short period until the release of Titanic later in the same year.
Toshio Suzuki, at a Studio Ghibli press conference on 2007-01-17, indicated that the title of the next Miyazaki film would be announced in March 2007. During the March, 19th edition of Japanese news program “NNN Newsリアルタイム”, the film's title was announced as Gake no ue no Ponyo, literally "Ponyo on a Cliff." It will be released in summer of 2008. More at: Wiki &; GhibliWorld
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